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BJP parliamentarian Varun Gandhi said today that he would sue senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan for defamation, as allegations emerged that he was blackmailed by an arms dealer into leaking information related to defence deals.

BJP parliamentarian Varun Gandhi leaked crucial information about defence matters to arms manufacturers after being blackmailed with pictures of him with foreign escorts and prostitutes, Prime Minster Narendra Modi's Office has been told in a letter.

The wife of the Afghan-born US citizen charged in last weekend's bombings in New York City and New Jersey has returned to the United States, a law enforcement official said on Thursday, while a defence lawyer pressed to get access to the accused man.

A defence lawyer for a British business executive who was charged today with the murder of a Kenyan woman has denied a previous account which suggested she had died while taking "selfies with a gun" that accidentally went off.

A Belgian fugitive suspected of taking part in the Paris attacks was stopped three times by French police as he was driven back to Brussels the following morning but allowed to carry on his way, a defence lawyer said on Tuesday.

"Why had the prosecution not examined this witness in the trial court? Kamaal Khan is the best eyewitness available to the prosecution as he was present in Salman's car on September 28, 2002, when it rammed into a shop in Bandra killing one person and injuring four others," said Salman Khan's lawyer Amit Desai

"We strongly believe that the tyre, a vital piece of evidence, has been tampered with," said Salman Khan's lawyer Amit Desai. The Bombay High Court is currently hearing Mr Khan's appeal against the conviction and five-year sentence for crashing his car into a bakery in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002

Salman Khan's lawyer said that the impact theory was falsely created by the panch who was not at the site. In another development, Judge A R Joshi rejected the suggestion made by the prosecution lawyers S S Shinde and Purnima Kantharia that he (the Judge) may visit the mishap site at Bandra to get a feel of the place

Advocate Amit Desai, Mr Khan's lawyer, argued before the Bombay High Court that the prosecution did not ask Amin Kasam Shaikh, an eye-witness, about who was driving the car when the accident took place. Mr Shaikh was also sleeping on the pavement near the accident spot in suburban Bandra, Mr Desai said